Chest ACCP Member Benefits
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Guest Access | Sign In via User Name/Password
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF) Free
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Article Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Doyama, K.
Right arrow Articles by Fujiwara, H.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Doyama, K.
Right arrow Articles by Fujiwara, H.

Chest, Vol 97, 1480-1481, Copyright © 1990 by American College of Chest Physicians

ARTICLES

Asymmetric septal hypertrophy in a 41-year-old woman with Noonan's syndrome

K Doyama, K Hirose and H Fujiwara
Cardiovascular Department, Ohtsu Red-Cross Hospital, Shiga, Japan.

A 41-year-old woman had Noonan's syndrome. Her heart was complicated by asymmetric septal hypertrophy, hypertrophy of the left ventricular free wall, severe pulmonary stenosis, and right ventricular hypertension. On autopsy, a quantitative histologic analysis of the heart revealed that the area of disarray was limited both to the ventricular septum and the left ventricular free wall as in a normal heart. This is not typical of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy because the extent of disarray is high in most cases of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Some form of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, however, seemed to be present in this patient because right ventricular pressure overload did not affect the left ventricular free wall. To clarify the relation between hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and Noonan's syndrome, quantitative histologic analysis is necessary.




HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 1990 by the American College of Chest Physicians.